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August 25, 2006, 08:51 PM | #1 |
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what happened to advanced search?
It used to be an option when you would click on the Search tab on the top bar. It has gone away.
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August 25, 2006, 09:05 PM | #2 |
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I think tyme & the other tech geeks kind of got sick of dealing with the buggy vBulletin search interface, and decided to link to Google's search engine instead.
If it's up for a vote at all, guys -- I'd rather deal with buggy vB searches than have to read through a jillion not-by-date and not-by-post and not-by-username and not-by-thread title Google returns. pax |
August 26, 2006, 11:46 AM | #3 |
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Thanks for the suggestion, pax. I'm with you. The advanced search is invaluable.
I think there are other technical considerations at this time. Once those are addressed, we'll get the advanced search back. -Dave |
August 26, 2006, 12:04 PM | #4 |
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I agree, the advanced search is a FAR better option.
Yes, VB search is buggy. But, it also returns FAR more useful information.
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August 28, 2006, 10:23 AM | #5 |
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Yes please VB search! I tried for 20 minutes today to find a relevant 28 guage post!
:barf: google more like gaggle!
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August 28, 2006, 11:33 PM | #6 |
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Ooops...
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August 30, 2006, 02:21 PM | #7 |
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Yes, please bring back the original advanced search function. I use almost every day!
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August 30, 2006, 05:15 PM | #8 |
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+1 on advanced search. It may have it's flaws, but it is better than having 20,000 posts to wade through.
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August 30, 2006, 08:39 PM | #9 |
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+1E10 on bringing back the Advanced Search
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September 1, 2006, 08:20 AM | #10 |
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+1 to bringing back the advanced search.
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September 1, 2006, 03:53 PM | #11 |
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Enough with the +1s. We get the picture. It'll be back as soon as we can do it.
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September 2, 2006, 03:02 AM | #12 |
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Just making sure you get the picture.
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September 2, 2006, 03:47 AM | #13 |
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isn't it funny that the mods think that we sound like children
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September 4, 2006, 06:35 PM | #14 |
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Just click on "new posts" then click on "search" ware it says "search:new posts" its right above ware it says "Thread / Thread Starter" it still works.
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September 7, 2006, 10:25 PM | #15 |
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No, it doesn't... not really. The forums have not been reindexed. Advanced search is still accessible, but you'll only get results from the last few weeks.
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September 7, 2006, 11:07 PM | #16 |
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When you re-implement advanced search, is there any way to enable searches on short strings? There's a lot of firearms stuff, like shotgun gauges, that only uses two characters. A phrase search would be nice, and if boolean searches worked like they were supposed to, that'd be pretty neat.
I'm sure a lot of this is built into the software, but vBulletin's search functions have always seemed pretty mono-buttocked to me. The search functionality of Google with the display modes of vB... that would be best. You guys work way harder for all of us than we've any right to expect, thanks a bunch. --Shannon |
September 8, 2006, 01:02 AM | #17 |
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What I think many people miss is being able to isolate searches to one of the sub-forums, like handguns, rifles, shotguns, etc. I know I do. The google search is nice, but I think people want to be able to focus on a certian area and be able to fine tune it a bit. Just my oppinion.
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The obvious way to do it is slow: search for each keyword of a phrase separately, then do a (slow) full text search of those posts to see which ones have the exact phrase. Maybe they save each word index entry as a (word, documentid, word offset) triplet. That would allow them to quickly compute offset differences, but would require a gargantuan amount of storage for indexing common words. Quote:
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"Enough with the +1s. We get the picture. It'll be back as soon as we can do it."
+2 with a bullet.
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September 8, 2006, 11:46 AM | #20 |
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At least it's a change of pace.
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